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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
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Portland
Indiana
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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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Perfect practice makes perfect.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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